Shower-bath pail.



R. E. JONES.

SHOWER BATH FAIL.

APPLIoATIoN FILED 00T. 7, 1912.

Patented Nov. 11, 1913.

WITNESS/5S' RALPHAE. JONES, OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY.

SHOWER-BATH BAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 11, 31913.

Application led October 7, 1912. Serial No. 724,377.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH E. Joints, a citizen of the United States, and a lieutenant in the United States Infantry, have invented a new and useful Shower-Bath Pail, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in portable shower baths, especially those designed to be used also as ordinary pails. Articles heretofore produced for this purpose have either been leaky when full of water or else complicated, heavy, and costly to manufacture; in either case they have been worthless as a pail and more or less undesirable as a shower' bath.

My object is to produce a light, durable article that will be satisfactory both in the capacity of a pail and a shower bath and, at the same time, will be easily and cheaply manufactured.

Another object of my invention is to produce a satisfactory shower bath pail that may also be conveniently used as a garden sprinkler.

Still another object of my invention is to produce an article which will have, in combination with all of the abovementioned virtues, the virtue of collapsibility; thus making the satisfactory portable shower bath less cumbersome when it is desired to take it from one place to another.

In the accompanying drawing, the figure is a vertical section through the center of my shower bath pail, and shows all essential features of construction.

ln the drawing, WV is the wall of an ordinary galvanized iron pail. B is the bottom of said pail and is the same as the bottom of any ordinary pail except that it has certain perforations, P and P. Y

F is a false bottom and consists of a metal disk pressed into the shape shown and having a hole H in the center. At or near its periphery the false bottom F is soldered to the bottom B, thereby preventing the escape of water from the pail eX- cept through the hole H.

S is an elastic buoyant stopper, preferably made of cork, which, when inserted in the hole H, makes of the device a water tight pail.

W is a wire, of suitable size and stiffness, bent into the shape shown.

It will be noticed that the metal at the edge yof the hole H is bent a certain way, thus facilitating the insertion of the stopper serted in the hole H, the pail is filled with l water and carried to a suitable place where it may be hung up. W'hen ready for the rinsing shower, the pail is hung up and the stopper' S is dislodged by pressing upward upon it through the hole P with the wire W. The buoyant stopper S then comes to the surface and floats. The water runs through the hole H and thence through the single hole 'P and the several holes P', thereby forming a shower.

For use as a sprinkler, the procedure is as follows: The stopper S is inserted in the hole H and the end of a piece of twine T is attached to the said stopper. The pail is filled with water and carried to the flower bed or other place. "When ready, the stopper is dislodged by pulling upward upon the twine which is attached to it. The water iows out as before explained.

An important feature in devices of this class is to provide a construction which can be economically made and can be made in such way as to reduce the danger of leakage to a minimum. lith these ends in view, it will be noticed that the false bottom in the construction shown is made concaveconvex with the convex side uppermost and the outer edges of the false bottom rest upon the true perforated bottom and are secured thereto by soldering. Thus I am able to utilize in the production of the completed device an ordinary commercial bucket and to secure the false bottom in such manner as to absolutely prevent leakage and to do this at a small initial cost. At the same time l provide for elevating the valve seat at the center of the false bottom in such manner `that the buoyant cork can operate efficiently when pushed down to a sealed position and yet can be readily released from below when desired. Y

T claim:

l. A device of the character described, comprising a bucket having its bottom provided with a plurality of perforations, a false bottom above said perforated bottom and having an outlet opening and a buoyant valve seated in said opening from above and adapted to be released by means inand provided at its crown withl an outlet sei-ted through the perforated bottom and opening, and a buoyant valve seating in said 10 to rise by its buoyancy from the discharge opening vfrom above, substantially as Set opening, substantially as set forth. forth.

2. A portable shower bath device herein RALPH E. JONES. deeoribed comprising a bucket having a pervWitnesses: foi-ated bottom, a false bottom in oonoavo- JOHN E. CREED, convex form above the perforated bottomI yRALPH VKriwnaLL.

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